“The nesting dolls of the Christian East”, by Father Alexander Winogradsky Frenkel

Paraphrasing Luke the Evangelist in Acts 10:37, we could ask, “Do you know what happened in the whole country of Rus’?” The Patriarchate of Constantinople imposed the creation of a new “Orthodox Church in Ukraine” to the Moscow Patriarchate. Things evolved in conflicting ways between the heads of the Constantinople and Moscow Patriarchates, since the Russian Orthodox Church refused to participate in the Pan-Orthodox Council of Crete in 2016. Could